I've also bought a domain through No-IP.com since I have a dynamic IP and I'm not wanting to pay for a static one.

I'm needing my own server for my small business website.
Along with that, I need an eMail server and FTP server.

The tut says that I type in my domain in during setup.
So I would enter the one I purchased?

I'm behind a router and my other machines are all Windows based.

Ultimately, I'm wanting to run this server headless and VNC into it via my main Windows Vista box.

I also noticed in the tut that typing server1.example.com (from the the tut, obviously) will get you to the server.
Does this mean that anyone with that URL can access my server or is that only accessible from my network?

I've also been reading in various places that I'll only be able to receive email from the outside world, not send it. Is this true?
How can I get around this?
Would I need some other service that No-IP provides?

Can someone help me out?

Please, do not assume I know much about Linux, because I don't.
This will be my second experience with Linux. The first was with Ubuntu last year and it was a disaster...

I dont know much about Linux myself, may be some one with the knowledge replies?
I can only tel you what we have at work.
We have setup most of our servers with Ubuntu (Feisty, Hardy, Debian sarge etc...).
The web server is a xen (virtual server) off of a feisty server.
the web interface uses zope and plone (besides the normal apache2 base).

Our mail server uses vpopmail (qmail)which is also on a xen guest machine off of a feisty server (ubuntu 7.04 which has been discontinues so we will upgrade soon but Not to version 8.10 because xen is not supported there. yet)!The qmail recommends it to be run on a xen or a virtual machine.

Our DNS is also a xen machine for security runs off of a feisty server.

The telephones though are on an OpenBSD server which is more secure I guess?

(I do not know if you have voice over IP setup?) But that is very sweet since I have worked with it before.
our DNS server points to our actual ISP and has their IP address in the resolv.conf file but the rest of our machines including the workstations only point to our local DNS. (Now I dont know how you will handle this since you are getting an IP from DHCP? May be call the dhclient and get the result put in there? Not so sure??)

So it is like the DNS machine also acts as a gateway between our local (LAN) to the WAN.
We do not have any FTP (from outside) but use OpenVPN for security. (it deals with security certificate etc.)

you can always ssh to your servers using either a linux machines or via PuTTY from Windows, it works really well. I setup a couple of FTP servers for myself and that is easy , you just install ftp as you would any other program (I dont remember the exact command) it is different for each flavor of linux any way.

This is a basic setup here, I know it may be a little too complicated since I think it is, (but I just got here a while ago I am not the one who set this up) I hope some one can give you more/better details.
good luck.

I have a question along the same lines. Everything installed well, when i type in the local ip address for the server in my browser (192.168.1.4:8080) it works perfectly, when i type in the server name (http://server.agama.com:8080) it doesn't work. I have checked the interfaces and hosts scripts and they all point to 192.168.1.4, but when I ran dig `hostname` it came up with the server address as 192.168.1.1, which I am guessing is the issue? I also ran nslookup and got the same result of 192.168.1.1.

I wondered if it had something to do with the resolv.conf but even logged in as root (su -) I cannot view as permission denied.

Is there any way i can change the server name address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.4? if that is actually the problem.

I have a question along the same lines. Everything installed well, when i type in the local ip address for the server in my browser (192.168.1.4:8080) it works perfectly, when i type in the server name (http://server.agama.com:8080) it doesn't work. I have checked the interfaces and hosts scripts and they all point to 192.168.1.4, but when I ran dig `hostname` it came up with the server address as 192.168.1.1, which I am guessing is the issue? I also ran nslookup and got the same result of 192.168.1.1.

I wondered if it had something to do with the resolv.conf but even logged in as root (su -) I cannot view as permission denied.

Is there any way i can change the server name address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.4? if that is actually the problem.

Thank you!
-Shayne

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Are you running an internal DNS server? Then change it there. Or did you create that record somewhere in /etc/hosts?